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What a heartbreaking week it has been. Sir Patrick Stewart was a friend, a colleague, and a magnificent actor. From the stage to the bridge of the Enterprise, he brought intelligence, grace, and a deep sense of humanity to everything he did. Captain Picard stood for the best of us, and so did the man who played him. I was filled with affection and admiration for him and his work.
My heart goes out to Sunny and his family. He will be deeply missed.
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Just got the news of the passing of one of my @StarTrek family members, the iconic #WalterKoenig. The laughs, Cons, flights, great meals, beautiful locations, and the moments we shared with fans around the world will live with me forever. Restful peace, my friend.💕#StarTrek
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Is there anyone I know at Google who can help me?
I want to start publishing an Android app for overalls, but my [email protected] Google Play account is "closed," and Google wants me to create a new account (how? This is my Google Workspace account!)
kinda hostile and shitty developer experience. Perhaps I don't even bother with the platform.
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If you bank at JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, U.S. Bank, Citibank, or Wells Fargo AND you're conservative. I would find a new place to put your money TODAY.
A federal regulator just found that America's biggest banks have been targeting conservatives. Some even flagged words like "MAGA" and "America First" as "reputational risks".
Where did the banks get that pressure to flag these words? Straight from the regulators in our government that watch over the banks.
While investigating Donald Trump, Jack Smith’s team collected personal records on over 639,000 Republican voters and donors. Home addresses, birth dates, credit card records... if you bought a MAGA hat or donated even $5, the federal government put your name on a spreadsheet. Big Tech tracks you, the Feds list you, and Big Banks flag you. It’s a complete surveillance apparatus targeted at one half of the country. Jack Smith needs to be held accountable. And so do these banks.
I bank with U.S. Bank. Today, I’m calling a Vice President there to ask one simple question: What are you doing to make sure your bank isn't feeding this weaponized system? If they can't prove their CEO is doing everything they can to fight this overreach, I’m pulling every single dime and moving it somewhere else.
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I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you.
I come from your future.
In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation, high taxes on the rich, a state that takes care of everything. Public spending close to 57% of GDP, one of the highest on the planet. On paper, it’s the dream.
Here’s what it looks like from the inside. France hasn’t passed a balanced budget since 1974. Our debt is above 3,300 billion euros. Interest on that debt is becoming one of the biggest items in the national budget. Our hospitals are collapsing despite record funding. Our schools rank lower every year. Young people with degrees can’t afford an apartment in the city they were born in. Our best engineers leave for London, Zurich and San Francisco. And the rich you wanted to tax? They left too, and took the jobs with them.
The promise was protection. The result is stagnation.
The worst part is that nobody in France voted for decline. Every single step sounded generous, compassionate, reasonable. One more program. One more regulation. One more tax to fund it. Each step alone makes sense. Fifty years of them, and you wake up in a country that can no longer build a nuclear plant on time or keep its streets safe.
I love America because it’s the one place on earth where people still believe they can build something from nothing. I came to Silicon Valley as a self-taught kid and it changed my life. That spirit is the most precious thing your country has.
Before you vote, ask yourself one question: is the program you’re voting for making America more like America, or more like France?
Trust me. You don’t want to be France.
Je n'ai jamais été aussi optimiste. Pas malgré le chaos actuel, mais grâce à lui.
Je vais vous expliquer pourquoi l'empire du mensonge construit par la gauche depuis cinquante ans va s'effondrer, et pourquoi ce n'est pas une opinion mais une question de physique.
Tout commence avec un mouvement né sur X il y a quelques années : l'effective accelerationism, ou e/acc.
Au départ, c'est une idée presque thermodynamique. L'univers a une tendance de fond : la matière s'organise pour capter et dissiper l'énergie de plus en plus efficacement. Une cellule fait ça. Une forêt fait ça. Une civilisation fait ça. Le marché, la technologie et le capital sont les formes les plus avancées de ce processus. Ce sont des machines à transformer l'énergie en intelligence, en abondance, en complexité.
La thèse e/acc est simple : il ne faut pas freiner cette dynamique, il faut l'embrasser. Plus d'énergie, plus de calcul, plus d'innovation, plus de croissance. Monter sur l'échelle de Kardashev au lieu de s'excuser d'exister. En face, il y a les « décels » : ceux qui veulent ralentir, réguler, taxer, interdire, culpabiliser. Ceux qui voient le progrès comme une menace à contenir plutôt qu'une force à libérer.
Mais il y a une dimension de l'accélération dont presque personne ne parle. L'accélération n'est pas seulement un moteur. C'est un filtre.
Pensez à n'importe quel organisme. Un corps humain en bonne santé peut courir. Il accélère, son cœur pompe plus fort, ses muscles consomment plus d'oxygène, et tout fonctionne parce que le système est bien conçu. Maintenant, prenez un corps malade. Des artères bouchées, un cœur fragile, des organes qui ne communiquent plus entre eux. Faites-le courir. Il ne va pas plus vite vers la santé. Il va plus vite vers l'infarctus.
L'accélération ne corrige pas les défauts d'un système. Elle les amplifie. Un système sain qui accélère devient plus fort. Un système dysfonctionnel qui accélère meurt plus vite.
Et c'est exactement ce qui est en train d'arriver au projet que je vais appeler par son nom : le projet globalo-socialiste. Celui porté par les démocrates américains, par la technostructure de Bruxelles, par les entités supranationales qui n'ont de comptes à rendre à personne, par un réseau d'ONG financées par l'argent public pour dicter la morale aux peuples qui les financent.
Regardez ce que ce projet a produit.
Des États obèses qui prélèvent plus de la moitié de la richesse produite et qui délivrent des services publics de plus en plus dégradés. Des écoles qui n'apprennent plus à lire mais qui apprennent à culpabiliser. Des hôpitaux à bout de souffle malgré des budgets records. Une immigration massive sans aucune exigence d'assimilation, présentée comme une chance par ceux qui n'en subissent jamais les conséquences. Une désindustrialisation organisée au nom d'une écologie punitive qui délocalise la pollution en Chine et l'emploi avec. Des normes, des normes, et encore des normes, jusqu'à ce qu'il devienne plus simple de créer une entreprise à Austin qu'à Lyon. Une justice qui excuse le coupable et soupçonne la victime. Une censure qui avance masquée sous le nom de « lutte contre la désinformation ». Et une jeunesse à qui l'on a expliqué que son pays, son histoire et sa civilisation étaient des crimes à expier.
Ce n'est pas un ensemble de bugs. C'est la conception elle-même.
Maintenant, changeons d'image. Voyez ce système comme un moteur.
Un bon moteur, c'est de la précision. Des pièces qui s'emboîtent, un minimum de frottements, une énergie qui se transforme en mouvement. Le marché libre, la propriété, la responsabilité individuelle, la monnaie saine : c'est ça, un moteur bien conçu. L'information circule par les prix, chaque erreur est sanctionnée, chaque bonne idée est récompensée.
Le moteur socialiste, lui, est mal conçu dès le départ. Il ne tourne pas sur la création de valeur mais sur sa redistribution. Il ne récompense pas la performance, il la taxe. Il ne laisse pas les erreurs mourir, il les subventionne. Résultat : ça frotte partout. Ça chauffe. Ça grince. Chaque pièce use la pièce d'à côté.
Et que font ceux qui pilotent ce moteur ? Au lieu de le reconcevoir, ils changent les pièces. En permanence. Une pièce cède, on en remet une neuve. Encore une. Encore une.
Ces pièces de rechange, vous les connaissez. Elles s'appellent la dette publique et la planche à billets.
La France a dépassé les 3 300 milliards d'euros de dette et n'a pas voté un budget à l'équilibre depuis le milieu des années 70. Les États-Unis ont franchi les 37 000 milliards de dollars. Les banques centrales ont maintenu des taux à zéro pendant des années, imprimé des montants que plus personne ne sait se représenter, et quand l'inflation est arrivée, elles ont fait semblant d'être surprises. Milton Friedman l'avait pourtant dit il y a cinquante ans : l'inflation est toujours et partout un phénomène monétaire.
Chaque crise, on rachète du temps avec de l'argent qui n'existe pas. Chaque problème structurel, on l'arrose de liquidités pour masquer le bruit du moteur. Mais les frottements sont toujours là. Ils s'accumulent. Et la facture des pièces de rechange finit par coûter plus cher que le moteur lui-même : la charge de la dette devient l'un des premiers postes de dépense de l'État français.
Pendant des décennies, ce moteur mal conçu a pu tourner à 3 000 tours par minute. Lentement. Bruyamment. Mais il tournait. Le monde allait assez doucement pour que le bricolage permanent suffise à masquer l'absurdité de la conception.
Et puis l'IA est arrivée.
L'intelligence artificielle, c'est l'accélération la plus brutale de l'histoire humaine. Ce qui prenait des années prend des mois. Ce qui prenait des mois prend des jours. Des entreprises de dix personnes font ce que faisaient des entreprises de mille. Le capital, les talents et les idées se déplacent à la vitesse de la lumière vers les endroits où ils sont bien traités.
L'IA vient de faire passer le moteur de 3 000 à 20 000 tours par minute.
Posez-vous la question qu'un ingénieur se poserait. Que se passe-t-il quand on fait monter à 20 000 tours un moteur mal conçu, rafistolé de partout, qui frotte à chaque rotation ?
Il explose.
Pas parce que quelqu'un l'a saboté. Parce que la physique ne négocie pas.
Et c'est exactement ce que nous voyons en ce moment, sous nos yeux.
L'insécurité qui gagne des villes entières qui étaient paisibles il y a vingt ans. Le conflit de Gaza importé dans nos rues et instrumentalisé par une gauche qui a troqué l'ouvrier contre le clientélisme communautaire. La misère qui revient dans un pays qui a pourtant un des taux de dépense publique les plus élevés au monde. Des classes moyennes qui travaillent et n'arrivent plus à se loger. Une France fracturée, où l'on parle désormais à voix haute de risque de guerre civile.
Ce ne sont pas des accidents. Ce ne sont pas des « crises » successives sans lien entre elles. Ce sont les pièces du moteur qui commencent à voler.
C'est la conséquence logique de cinquante ans de socialisme international : un système qui a détruit la responsabilité, la frontière, la monnaie, l'école et la fierté, et qui découvre qu'à haute vitesse, tout ce qui a été détruit ne peut plus être compensé par une ligne de dette supplémentaire.
Et c'est là que je deviens profondément optimiste.
Parce qu'une fois qu'on a compris ça, on comprend aussi que leur projet a une date de fin. Pas une date politique. Une date physique. Un système qui consomme plus qu'il ne produit, qui punit ceux qui créent et récompense ceux qui détruisent, qui finance son présent en hypothéquant l'avenir de ses enfants, ne peut pas durer indéfiniment. Il n'est pas soutenable par construction. L'IA ne fait qu'avancer l'échéance.
Le mensonge a besoin de lenteur pour survivre. Il a besoin que les conséquences arrivent assez tard pour qu'on puisse accuser quelqu'un d'autre. Dans un monde à 20 000 tours, les conséquences arrivent immédiatement. Le mensonge n'a plus le temps de se cacher.
Alors, que faire quand le moteur explose ? On en construit un nouveau. Et cette fois, on le conçoit correctement.
Écoutez Elon Musk. Un homme qui a reconstruit l'industrie spatiale, la voiture électrique et l'infrastructure satellite en partant d'un principe simple : revenir aux premiers principes. Ne pas demander « comment on a toujours fait », mais « qu'est-ce qui est physiquement vrai ». C'est exactement ce dont nos États ont besoin : arrêter de rafistoler et repartir de la base.
Écoutez Javier Milei. Un homme dont tout le monde se moquait, arrivé à la tête d'un pays ravagé par un siècle de péronisme, et qui a pris la tronçonneuse au sens propre. Ministères supprimés, dépenses coupées, inflation écrasée, excédent budgétaire retrouvé. Il a prouvé une chose que la gauche jurait impossible : on peut démonter le moteur socialiste et le peuple peut le soutenir.
Écoutez Milton Friedman. Relisez-le. Tout était déjà là. La monnaie, la liberté de choisir, la responsabilité, les effets pervers de l'intervention publique. Il disait que si l'on confiait le Sahara au gouvernement fédéral, il y aurait pénurie de sable en cinq ans. On a ri. On a confié le sable. On a eu la pénurie.
Revenez à une hiérarchie et au respect du beau. Une civilisation ne tient pas que sur des chiffres. Elle tient sur l'idée qu'il existe des choses supérieures à d'autres. Que l'excellence vaut mieux que la médiocrité. Que le mérite compte. Qu'une cathédrale est plus belle qu'un parking. Que transmettre est un devoir et pas une oppression. Le relativisme a été l'arme culturelle de ce projet. Le retour du beau, du vrai et de l'exigence en sera l'antidote.
Et enfin, faites le Nuremberg du communisme. Le nazisme a été jugé, documenté, enseigné, et il est devenu moralement indéfendable. Le communisme, avec ses dizaines de millions de morts, ses goulags, ses famines organisées et ses peuples réduits en esclavage, n'a jamais eu ce procès. On peut encore porter un t-shirt du Che dans une université sans que personne ne cille. Tant que ce procès historique et moral n'aura pas eu lieu, l'idéologie continuera de muter et de revenir sous de nouveaux noms. Il faut nommer les crimes, les enseigner, honorer les victimes, et rendre cette idéologie aussi infréquentable que celle qu'elle prétendait combattre.
Le monde qui vient sera plus rapide, plus exigeant et plus impitoyable avec les systèmes mal conçus. C'est une terrible nouvelle pour ceux qui ont vécu du mensonge.
Et c'est la meilleure nouvelle de notre génération pour tous ceux qui veulent construire.
Le moteur va exploser. À nous de dessiner le suivant.
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🫸🏼👽 Is This Why Disclosure Has Stalled? 👽🫷🏼
"There was structured interaction with [a non-human entity], on a continuing basis." ~JV
Vallée: Communication with Non-Humans Has, "Happened in Government Facilities."
"What I cannot tell is whether...the entity that was presented was a simulation of a real entity, or whether it was a real entity. The people I spoke to couldn't probe [the entity] to see if it was made of flesh or in metal or something else." ~JV
"We may be able to interact with the entities." ~JV
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(Judging by the limited replies (said replies REALLY help posts get seen by more people) on my two previous, MASSIVE posts about Gilbert/Vallée, most don't seem very interested in these claims. That baffles me. The fact that this is coming from Vallée (even though it's second hand) is why I (and others) feel it's worthy of monitoring closely. I will continue to post, and write, about this, but still take it with a grain of salt. If Gilbert goes public, then we can reevaluate things at that time.)
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@JeremyCorbell: "So you're saying you've been made aware that there is a government project, maybe it was 20 years ago, that was able to establish direct communication with a non-human intelligence, and that you believe this information to be true, and that this is a reality. This is what you understand to be true. Is that correct?"
Vallée: "Umm... I cannot tell... Yes. Yes."
(Watch the video clip and you'll see JV being cautious with his answer to Corbell, and then shift to, "Yes, yes." Note Knapp's reaction.
AFAIK, this interview is the first time JV mentions the Gilbert case and related claims, even though he doesn't use the name Gilbert.)
~~~Vallée on "Weaponized" with @g_knapp and Corbell - Dec. 2025 ~ FS 7 Was Published 7 months Later~~~
(Does the current batch of 6 releases mean Disclosure is no longer stalled? I don't think so.)
Vallée: "There are cases that I know, where this (humans communicating with non-humans) happened in government facilities, but nobody is talking about that. So I suspect that that's (the claims by Gilbert) true, based on the people I've met. But they were not the people who were running the program, so I cannot be completely sure. But what they described to me is a very sophisticated process, by which we may be able to interact with the entities.
"Those are not the entities that are described at Trinity in my book with Paola Harris. They are not the entities that were caught in Brazil in that documentary (on Varginha). They may be the controllers, they may be the higher-level entity."
(Again, the entities JV refers to as the ones who may be the high-level entities (bosses?) and "controllers" include the being Gilbert allegedly encountered and, as JV says, other, "cases that I know, where this (humans communicating with non-humans) happened in government facilities." As JV said in the recent Bigelow podcast, "the pilots they use are primitive hybrids, as we see in Trinity, Socorro, Valensole, and now in Varginha, now a total of nine similar entities in my database: child-size, breathing air, adapted to our special gravity.")
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Vallée: "If what I'm told is true, the communication with them is very sophisticated and it's complex. So, there may be a group that I would respect that has access to that. And this was from years ago, by the way. I mean, that report of that particular interaction was more than 20 years ago, in a lab somewhere, in controlled conditions.
"If that's true, then there is a process ongoing where we may be able to acquire information at a very sophisticated level. And that would be, you know, that could be a reason for stalling quote 'Disclosure' until there can be a rational way that we're not confronted with something so overpowering that it would destroy our culture and our society. I mean, we have enough to deal with, with AI these days (laughs). Which is, you know, a foreign entity, potentially."
(I think I speak for most folks when I say: Proof that we've been able to communicate with a non-human entity (or multiple non-human entities) should have been made made public a VERY LONG TIME AGO. If they had started leaking it when it first started happening, we wouldn't be in this predicament.)
Corbell: "So you're saying you've been made aware that there is a government project, maybe it was 20 years ago, that was able to establish direct communication with a non-human intelligence, and that you believe this information to be true, and that this is a reality. This is what you understand to be true. Is that correct?"
Vallée: "I cannot tell... Yes, yes. It's factual. What I cannot tell is whether that the entity that was presented was a simulation of a real entity, or whether it was a real entity. Okay. The people I spoke to couldn't probe it to see if it was made of flesh or in metal or something else. But it was presented to them in a secure facility that I've never heard of anywhere else, where there was structured interaction with it, on a continuing basis, by specialists from different areas. The person I spoke to was an extreme, you know, specialist in a particular discipline, and not a casual observer."
Corbell: "And so that could be kind of one of the reasons we have to be careful, or there's a slow rollout of disclosure, because you're saying, we might already have communication with some non-humans."
Vallée: "There have been forms of communication or ways to engineer communication at a sophisticated level. I don't think...the entities from Trinity, you know, were obviously scared. They were not the controllers of the craft."
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It is actually starting to cool, thank The Lord, and the nights are starting to arrive just a bit earlier. Soon that superior season will be upon us. Autumn.
This reminds me of story from a few autumns past when Rascal had to deal with some ne'er-do-wells raising Cain late one night at the shop.
When I got there I found the creature dressed in his best 1800's sleepwear and holding a .45 revolver.
"You take the light, i'll lead the way." was all the talk he would allow.
He handed me the Humming Meadow Silo Taper Hurricane and deeper into the dark warehouse we went. Given that this was years before Humming Meadow was stocking these I have no clue how he came by it. No, I did not bother to ask.
How that evening unfolded is a story, perhaps, for another time. For now I will thank @SummRidge for always supporting us and will say that this week's fun is a Taylor's and Co. Remington Conversion .45colt revolver paired with a lovely Humming Meadow Silo Taper Hurricane Candle holder (will be throwing in a candle too!)
I hope all of you have an amazing and blessed week and are looking forward to fall as much as we are!
Good luck to all and Keep Going even when it gets spooky!
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I attended a meeting of the UAP Governance Board on September 11, 2026 at the ODNI. That ODNI room was filled with honorable representatives from all branches of the executive branch of the U.S. government. The mood was sober and serious, following the deep interest in UAP from the White House. In my short presentation I clarified that President Trump’s directive to understand UAP would reverberate for millions of years in case it will seed a new understanding of our cosmic neighborhood. In my role as chair of the UAP Science Advisory Council to the White House, ODNI, the Department of War, the FBI, and the Intelligence Community, I felt more at home in the company of government officials than among comet experts in mainstream academia. Thanks to the historical waiver of legal repercussions to UAP whistleblowers issued by the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Aaron Lucas (@DepDNILukas), we are likely to learn more about history data collected by the U.S. government on UAP over the past century. What started as a down-to-Earth matter may end up reaching the stars. Eventually, the mainstream of academia will catch up but rather than wait for their awakening, I will be working around the clock to bring scientific clarity on UAP through the collection and analysis of new data.
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🚨 HOLY CRAP! A Senate Democrat just BLOCKED legislation that would help ensure AI data centers pay their own electricity, rather than pass costs onto Americans — backed by Trump
This was passed by the House 417 to 3 last night!!
SEN. HUSTED (R-OH): I ask unanimous consent to pass the bill
SEN. HEINRICH (D-NM): Reserving the right to object...
SEN. MORENO (R-OH): I just want to make clear what just happened...all we had to do was not have an objection from a Democrat senator, that bill would become LAW TODAY and electricity users would've seen IMMEDIATE RELIEF. We did NOTHING because of DEMOCRAT OBSTRUCTION! This bill would've done something!
Heinrich whined that it "didn't do enough..." and by doing this, he ensured NOTHING HAPPENED AT ALL.
Reality check: as a result of Democrats' objection, this bill is now STALLED in the Senate. If he wanted to "do more," he should've let this fly through, then filed to get more done!
President Trump's executive order on this needs to be codified!
Well, there you have it. The Democrats in the Senate just voted in direct contrast to the interests of Americans.
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Rascal found out he got to partner with the beloved & celebrated @RoofKorean7 for this week's giveaway and that varmint has been strutting around the shop with his chest puffed out all morning, lol.
We are happy to promote this great example of American resourcefulness and bravery as well as his book Rooftop Korean: Memoir of the 1992 L.A. Riots which is set to release tomorrow, 09/15/2026!
Tony said to do it right! So, we are including in this week the BALLISTIC ADDITION of his new book which has both a shot right through the title page but the legend's signature as well! These were very limited and I was very surprised he had one left to offer you fine folks!
We could not get Tony to throw in his Daewoo rifle, understable, so Rascal is coming through for you all with the new Harrington & Richardson Retro M16A1 20" 5.56 rifle!
Given X has new feelings about our festivities we are asking all the long time folks to inform our new friends of how it all works!
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Thanks, as always, to @SummRidge , and all others that help make these possible!
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